Everex, the US-based PC selling division of Taiwan's First International Computer (FIC), this week took the fight to Asus' popular Eee PC sub-notebook. It also launched a desktop-oriented mini PC.
Dubbed the CloudBook CE1200V, the compact laptop will be instantly familiar to anyone who's seen Packard Bell's EasyNote XS20 or …

But if it's running Linux too ....

Few notes about this machine

If you thought that EEE has crappy mouse, then take a look at this machine, it's "pad" is above the keyboard and maybe works great if you have baby fingers, but adult fingers won't work well with this micro-tiny touchpad.

2nd, 1.2Ghz VIA C7-M is NOT faster compared to whats inside EEE. Go ahead, benchmark them and see for yourself.

The dream roadwarrior machine has finally arrived

What most reviewers are missing is that the Laptop has hardware AES accelaration. As a result it can deliver 50Mbit plus AES with virtually 0 CPU load. It is the dream road warrior machine for any shop with a good VPN setup.

UMPC : The Return of the Psion 5MX

It struck me that all these three meachines look very familiar. And that is becuase I still [still!!] use my Psion 5X. A month of a pair of Double A's, touch screen, expandable memory port, infrared.

Ok, so it is pretty poor at doing 'on line stuff', but as far as I can see, that is about the only draw back of this amazing device.

All four devices [the three UMPC's and the 5MX] can synch with email clients, al synch with calendar clients, all play games, they all open MS Docs [although the MX does not supoort ODF : Ten years too early i sorry to say !!].

The 5MX is still the best PDA I know. UMPC's are, after all, just PDA's surely............?